It is separated by a green buffer from Newcastle International Airport which is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the east. Nearby traditional villages are Heddon on the Wall, Throckley and Gosforth. Newcastle upon Tyne is accessed on the A696 or by bus to the airport, which has an express railway station or directly to the city centre. In the 2011 UK census Darras Hall (which is not a specific census sector) had a population of about 1500 people.

Darras Hall was a township in the ancient parish of Ponteland and became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1955 the civil parish was abolished and the area was absorbed back into the parish of Ponteland. John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 quoted a population of 15.

Research Tips

Northumberland Archives previously known as Northumberland Collections Service and Northumberland County Record Office. Now based within Woodhorn Museum in Ashington and providing free access to numerous records for local and family historians alike.

Northumberland and Durham FHS covers both Northumberland and County Durham. The Family History Society have a research centre in Percy House in central Newcastle upon Tyne (full address on website), open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 4 pm. Browse the website to see what else the society can provide.